Party members, and the proletarians, which are also similar to the Epsilons of Brave New World. The groups in Brave New World are programmed, both through the treatment as embryos and through hypnopaedia, to behave in the same way within their classes, and therefore allow social stability. This removes individuality among the lower classes, and creates stability throughout, as every class is programmed through childhood to be suited for the jobs in which they will be placed, and to be happy within their class and position in life.
             The proletarian sector makes up 85% of the population of Oceania, the main state in Nineteen Eight-four. Compared to the Outer Party, proletarians, or proles, have much more freedom and less control, but at the same time they are much easier to control. As a Party slogan says, 'Proles and animals are free.' They are unconfined, unlike the Party members, and uncontrolled. The proles lead ignorant, animalistic lives, and lack both the energy and interest to revolt; most of them do not even understand that the Party is oppressing them. 'If there is hope, writes Winston, it lies in the proles.' The proles could overthrow the Party if they only realised the power they have, but the Party has such total control over them that they never even contemplate trying to change their circumstances and doing something about their lives. 'Until they have become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they will never become conscious.' They do not realise there is power in numbers, and there are easily enough of them to overthrow the Party.
             The proletarian population lives in impoverished conditions. As they posed such little risk to the Party, they were mainly left alone by both the Thought and civil police, and for the most part were left unmonitored by the Party – 'the great majority of proles did not even have telescreens in their homes. Even...